Structural Deficit
Structural Deficit
Structural Deficit Market Archetype Mechanical Natural
Tier
Developing
Trajectory Thumbprint

Structural Deficit

What does this mean?

Persistently low financial health over 5 years despite strong programmatic output. They are borrowing from their future (or bleeding an endowment) to pay for today's programs.

The Path Forward

The Truth-Teller

Forces necessary, painful cuts to preserve the core. It demands that the organization stop borrowing from its future and align its current programmatic output with actual sustainable revenue.

The Truth-Teller
The Truth-Teller
Institutional Health Scores
5-yr trend: Structural Deficit
Overall
55
Score
Governance
58
Score
Financial
50
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
2011
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2016
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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
Financial Era
Governance Era
Trajectory Era
Structural Deficit

Historical Performance

Year Revenue Top Comp Comp % Rev Score Phase Label Outlook Details
2025 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2024 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2023 Hidden Hidden 4.1% 55 Fragile Recovery
2022 7.2% 44 Fragile Recovery
2021 13.8% 37 Fragile Recovery
2020 8.2% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2019 11.0% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2018 12.9% 38 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2017 7.1% 44 Fragile Recovery
2016 9.2% 40 Financially Distressed Recovery
2015 35 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2014 44 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2013 48 Fragile Decline Risk
2012 50 Fragile Recovery
2011 7.5% 44 Financially Distressed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Paul Cienniwa Executive Dir. 4.8% of Rev
Paul Cienniwa Executive Dir. 4.1% of Rev
Jeff Cull Board Member
Mary O'Malley Trumble Board President
Jeff Cull Board Member
Ann Yeager Board Member
Mary O'Malley Trumble Board President
Ryan Berkely Board Member
Ann Yeager Board Member
Debby Epstein Board Member
Brianna Nazarenko Board Member
Alison Dura Board Member
Debby Epstein Board Member
Barry John Board Member
Alison Dura Board Member
Maureen Wilson Board President
Barry John Board Member
Steve Machlin Board Member
Maureen Wilson Board President
Melissa Kritzer Board Member
Steve Machlin Board Member
Olwen Searles Board Member
Melissa Kritzer Board Member
Ken Turner Board Member
Olwen Searles Board Member
Alexis Drozdowski Board Member
Ken Turner Board Member
Greg Carpenter Treasurer
Olivia Mckan Board Member
Rebecca Lane Board President
Charlie Ostrander Board Member
Katherine Winckler Board President
Jud Spena Board Member
Megan Curinga Secretary
Keith Alcius Rundell Board Member
Nicole Rouhana Board Member
Greg Carpenter Treasurer
Rebecca Lane Board President
Katherine Winckler Board President
Megan Curinga Secretary

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Paul Cienniwa Executive Dir. 4.2% of Rev
Diane Butler Board Member
Ann Yeager Board Member
Jud Spena Board Member
Melissa Stucky Board Member
Stephen Trichka Board Member
Corinne Farrell Board Member
Daniel Norton Board President
Maureen Wilson Board President
Greg Catlin Board Member
Justin Marchuska II Board Member
Ayana Del Valle Board Member
Rebecca Lane Board Member
Ken Turner Board Member
Greg Carpenter Treasurer
Mary O'Malley Trumble Board President
Deborah Matsushima Board President
Katherine Winckler Secretary

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Paul Cienniwa Executive Dir. 3.1% of Rev
Andrea Carey Interim Ex Dir 2.9% of Rev
Brittany Hall Executive Dir. 2.6% of Rev
Diane Butler Board Member
Frank Lettera Board Member
Daniel Spence Board Member
Deborah Matsushima Board Member
Katherine Winckler Board Member
Ann Yeager Board Member
Jud Spena Board Member
Melissa Stucky Board Member
Brianna Salazar-Ruff Secretary
Stephen Trichka Board Member
Corinne Farrell Board Member
Maureen Wilson Board President
Greg Catlin Board Member
Julia O'Connell Board Member
Justin Marchuska II Board Member
Greg Carpenter Treasurer
Mary O'Malley Trumble Board President
Daniel Norton Board President
Diane Butler Board Member
Greg Carpenter Board Member
Frank Lettera Board Member
Daniel Spence Board Member
Mary O'Malley Trumble Board Member
Justin A Marchuska II Board Member
Deborah Matsushima Board Member
Kathie Winckler Board Member
Judy Siggins Board Member
Ann Yeager Board Member
Jud Spena Board Member
Melissa Stucky Board Member
Brianna Salazar-Ruff Board Member
Stephen Trichka Board Member
Philip Cali Secretary
Maureen Wilson Board President
Corinne Farrell Board President
Daniel Norton Board President
Adam McCauley Treasurer
Paul Cienniwa Executive Dir.
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
50 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
58 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
55 / 100
Developing

The three components combine into a single 0–100 score weighted as shown. Full methodology →

Peer comparison

Compared to 699 other orgs in NY with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: program score sits 31 points above the peer median (60 vs. 29).

5-year trend: Structural Deficit

Persistently low financial health over 5 years despite strong programmatic output. They are borrowing from their future (or bleeding an endowment) to pay for today's programs.

What's driving this score

What would change this score

The two changes that would most improve this score:

  1. Stabilize program expenses or grow earned-income revenue to break the consecutive-deficit pattern (~8 points to financial score).

Improving governance is a board decision. These are the levers.